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Daily Archives: June 15, 2020
Game for Vultures (1979) James Fargo, Richard Harris, Richard Roundtree, Joan Collins
The South African businessman David Swansey (Richard Harris) is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. Read More »
They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968) David Bradley, Walter Stocker, Audrey Caire, Carlos Rivas
At the end of World War II, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany Read More »
Fair Game AKA Mamba (1988) Mario Orfini, Trudie Styler, Gregg Henry, Bill Moseley
Gene, a clever but seriously deranged computer-game designer, has been left by his wife Eva. Read More »
Wild Berries AKA Hebi ichigo (2003) Miwa Nishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Miho Tsumiki, Sei Hiraizumi
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence. Read More »
Chinese Coffee (2000) Al Pacino, Jerry Orbach, Susan Floyd
When aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer Harry Levine is fired from his job as restaurant doorman Read More »
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960) Charles Barton, Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon
Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus. Read More »
Boccaccio ’70 (1962) Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide Read More »
Under the Domim Tree AKA Etz Hadomim Tafus (1994) Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami
Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) Read More »
Blue Water, White Death (1971) Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb, Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody
Peter Gimbel and a team of photographers set out on an expedition to find and Film Read More »
Woman Obsessed (1959) Henry Hathaway, Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Read More »
Seventeen (1983) Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines
In their final year at Muncie’s Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy Read More »
Unnatural AKA Alraune (1952) Arthur Maria Rabenalt, Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Karlheinz Böhm
A scientist creates a beautiful “perfect woman”, but since she is artificial Read More »
How to Cook Your Life (2007) Doris Dörrie, Edward Espe Brown
Doris Dörrie’s camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. Read More »
Nightmare Detective AKA Akumu tantei (2006) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. Read More »